Psychology: the Motive Powers

por James McCosh

38 capítulos9h 17mEnglish1887

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Dr. McCosh, in his second volume on Psychology, treats of the Motive Powers as distinct from the Cognitive Powers, which were discussed in tho first volume of the series. He regards this division of the human faculties as better and more natural than the more common arrangement of Kant into the faculties of cognition, feeling, and will, the great objection to which is that it leaves out of sight the moral power or conscience. Not that Kant ignores the moral nature, but that he treats it as if it were a phase of the rational faculty — reason having the power to awaken moral susceptibility and to hold it, as it were, to the truth and right action through the will. The motive powers are arranged by Dr. McCosh under three heads, — emotions, conscience, will, — making conscience or the moral faculty one of the leading faculties. Conscience, according to Dr. McCosh, is both a cognitive and a motive power, and so in a sense is superior to all the other faculties. By far the greater part of this book is given to the consideration of the emotions, which are considered in various aspects, and classified and described with great minuteness. The appetences or inclinations, the ruling idea in them, and the causes which excite or repress them, are set forth in methodical order, as also their various complex divisions and characteristics. The last section is devoted to the Will under ten different aspects, and to brief statements with regard to the religious tendency. Dr. McCosh certainly presents us in this treatise with a very compact, lucid, and comprehensive view of the subject under discussion. - Summary by The North American Review

Capítulos (38)

1Distinction between the Cognitive and Motive Power

304

2Prefatory Note

175

3Elements involved in Emotions

485

4Book I. The Four Elements or Aspects of Emotion - First Element: Appetences or Motives Part 1

1081

5Book I. The Four Elements or Aspects of Emotion - First Element: Appetences or Motives Part 2

1179

6Book I. The Four Elements or Aspects of Emotion - First Element: Appetences or Motives Part 3

1148

7Book I. The Four Elements or Aspects of Emotion - Second Element or Aspect: The Idea (Phantasm) Part 1

1191

8Book I. The Four Elements or Aspects of Emotion - Second Element or Aspect: The Idea (Phantasm) Part 2

1134

9Book I. The Four Elements or Aspects of Emotion - The Third Element or Aspect: The Excitement with Attachment and Repugnance

1391

10Book I. The Four Elements or Aspects of Emotion - Fourth Element or Aspect : The Organic Affection Part 1

1259

11Book I. The Four Elements or Aspects of Emotion - Fourth Element or Aspect : The Organic Affection Part 2

1102

12Book II. Classification and Description of the Emotions - Division of the Emotions

391

13Book II. Classification and Description of the Emotions - Emotions as directed to Animate Objects. Part 1

1744

14Book II. Classification and Description of the Emotions - Emotions as directed to Animate Objects. Part 2

1946

15Book II. Classification and Description of the Emotions - Emotions as directed to Animate Objects. Part 3

1698

16Book II. Classification and Description of the Emotions - Emotions called forth by Inanimate Objects. The Aesthetic Part 1

1315

17Book II. Classification and Description of the Emotions - Emotions called forth by Inanimate Objects. The Aesthetic Part 2

1871

18Book II. Classification and Description of the Emotions - Emotions called forth by Inanimate Objects. The Aesthetic Part 3

1457

19Book II. Classification and Description of the Emotions - Emotions called forth by Inanimate Objects. The Aesthetic Part 4

1198

20Book II. Classification and Description of the Emotions - Continuous Emotions Part 1

1468

21Book II. Classification and Description of the Emotions - Continuous Emotions Part 2

831

22The Conscience - There is such a Power

801

23The Conscience - The Conscience as a Cognitive Power

420

24The Conscience - The Conscience as a Motive Power with Emotions

134

25The Conscience - What the Conscience reveals

809

26The Conscience - The Conscience in Actual Exercise

1560

27The Conscience - Development and Growth of the Conscience

1309

28The Will, or Optative Power - The Essential Nature of Will

300

29The Will, or Optative Power - Various Forms of Voluntary Acts

603

30The Will, or Optative Power - The Will associating Itself with other Mental Acts

1032

31The Will, or Optative Power - The Will as exercised in the Moral Virtues

139

32The Will, or Optative Power - Will in the Christian Graces

223

33The Will, or Optative Power - The Will as an Element in Love

352

34The Will, or Optative Power - The Influence of the Will on Character

299

35The Will, or Optative Power - The Will has Freedom

337

36The Will, or Optative Power - The Will the Seat of Responsibility

273

37The Will, or Optative Power - Ideas given by the Motive Powers

111

38The Will, or Optative Power - Conclusion. — Man's Religious Tendencies

369

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